I don't have the same religious obligations. For me it's a very simple rule, I would like to treat others the same way I would want others to treat me. I would want to treat the muslims (or other minorities) in my country the same way I would want to be treated if I happened to be born as a hindu in a muslim majority country, or a christian majority country for that matter.
I think respecting people's privacy is very important, but at the same time, it's also very important to stand up for our rights. If the muslim in the video was shouting or chanting the verses very loudly, then others would have every right to object to that. But from the video, it looked like the muslim was chanting the verses in the same decibel level as two people speaking with each other. Let's be clear, the Saffer person was not outraged because the muslim was chanting loudly. He was outraged because he was chanting the Quran. If the same muslim was just reading for his exam in the same loudness, I doubt he would have even bothered.
And most definitely, if two people talking in a foreign language invokes phobia in people, then the right course of action is to not stop it and allow the phobia to fester, but counter the phobia of the people. I would like to think myself as not a racist, but I remember years back when I first encountered two Arabs alone in a lift in a popular hospital in India speaking Arabic with each other. I don't know why but I felt very nervous for some reason for the duration I was in the lift. It's not like I have never been around muslims, there are plenty of muslims in India and they all talk either the local language or hindi/urdu, and I've never been nervous around an Indian muslim. But I had bought into the whole mainstream media narrative of Arabs, extremism, terrorism trope and that's not the fault of the Arabs in the lift with me but mine because of a phobia I had developed unknowingly from the media representation of Arab muslims. I think it's absolutely vital to counter such phobia and subconscious biases within people, and you don't do that if you don't make an effort to do so.
